Blog 572 – 03.15.2017
Red and Blue Make Purple

I get a lot of my ideas for blogs in my sleep. I do not always remember my dreams but some are so vivid that they linger and I awake conscious of over night visitations. I woke up thinking that in my dreams I had figured out the answer to the great riff in my country over blue state and red state politics. It is like the great perceived divide between the sexes where the Universe created that great urge to merge we call sex. Our differences were never meant to divide us but to make coming together all the more exciting and fun. Enough sex talk.

For most of my life I thought of blue as my favorite color, but no more. I like red too, and all the colors of the rainbow. Every child with even the smallest box of Crayolas knows that combining colors makes a new color. Yellow and blue make green and red and blue make purple. Purple is the royal color and when we discover Who and Whose we truly are we know that purple is our color not red or blue for we are divine royalty. I quote a song that I sang as a boy:

“My father is rich in houses and land
He holdeth the wealth of world in his hands!
Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold,
His coffers are full, He has riches untold.
I’m a child of the King, a child of the King…”

And if the Christians are upset that I ended the quote there I gently remind them that all are children of the King not just a “chosen” few. I believe Papa/Mama loves all His/Her children best and sees them in royal robes not red or blue but purple. I used to think it would be better if we were all color blind but I have reconsidered that thinking. It would be best, I think, if we gave up the whole idea of a favorite or preferred color and learned to think like God and appreciated and loved all the colors of the rainbow. There is so much more to life than one point of view or fifty shades of gray. Life is so much more than black and white and even the red, brown, yellow, black, and white we sang about as children. The King loves all the colors of the rainbow and all the variations in His realm. He/She/We made it so.

Next time you are tempted to think in terms of black and white or red and blue I hope you will think purple, think pink and imagine the biggest box of Crayolas you can think of and love each one nonetheless. They are everyone terribly important and every color matters in the picture the King is drawing. As the Skittles commercial used to say, “Think the rainbow, be the rainbow.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White